Boxing Frank wanted sex swap after seeing Becks in a sarong

She got the courage to undergo the change after seeing the football idol, 39, wearing a sarong.

The 61-year-old ex-fight promoter, who guided Lennox Lewis, 48, to the world heavyweight title, went on TV yesterday for the first time since starting her new life.

Kellie, formerly Frank, revealed she knew from the age of three she was in the wrong body but kept it hidden for decades for fear of being branded a “pervert”.

SKIRT: Becks in a sarong in the 1990s [NATIONALNEWS]

“Well David Beckham does it, all these footballers do it, what does it matter?”

Kellie Maloney

She told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “I just kept it locked up. I would buy women’s clothes and I’d feel horrified. I would screw them up and just throw them straight in the bin. I wouldn’t even put them on.”

“And then when David Beckham appeared, when they started waxing themselves and everything else, I thought: ‘This is good. I can go to the beauty parlour now.

“‘I can do things like that and I can say well David Beckham does it, all these footballers do it, what does it matter?’’’